The Shadow Rising Quotes

“You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“Never think I have abandoned you. When the sun shines on you, it is my smile. When you hear the breeze stir through the apple blossoms, it is my whisper that I love you. My love is yours forever.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“If you plan for the worst, all surprises are pleasant.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“You read too much and understand too little.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“Both of them?" Mat spluttered. "Light! Two! Oh, burn me! He's the luckiest man in the world or the biggest fool since creation!”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“I, Perrin Aybara, do pledge you my love, Faile Bashere, for as long as I live" For as long as I live and after. "What I possess in this world I give to you." A horse, an axe, a bow. A hammer. Not much to gift a bride. I give you life, my love. It's all I have. "I will keep you and hold you, succor and tend you, protect and shelter you, for all the days of my life." I can't keep you; the only way I can protect you is to send you away. "I am yours, always and forever.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“How did you ever come to like a common blacksmith?"
"The word is 'love', Perrin Aybara.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“How do you feel about your prophesied destiny? I
must know, if I am to compose this epic."
"Feel?" Rand looked around the camp, at the Jindo moving among the tents. How many of them would be dead before he was done? "Tired. I feel tired.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“The Shadow shall rise across the world, and darken every land, even to the smallest corner, and there shall be neither Light nor safety. And he who shall be born of the Dawn, born of the Maiden, according to Prophecy, he shall stretch forth his hands to catch the Shadow, and the world shall scream in the pain of salvation. All Glory be to the Creator, and to the Light, and to he sho shall be born again. May the Light save us from him.

-from Commentaries on the Karaethon Cycle Sereine dar Shamelle Motara Counsel-Sister to Comaelle, High Queen of Jaramide (circa 325 AB, the Third Age)”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“Mat snorted. “I don’t want to be any bloody hero.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“To believe a thing is not to make it true.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“I’ll not have you bleeding to death on me. That would be just like you, to die and leave me the work of burying you. You have no consideration.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“Rand, maybe that's the answer they give to everybody. Those snake people, I mean. Got to Rhuidean. Maybe we don't have to be here at all.' He did not believe it, but with that fog staring him in the face. ...

Rand turned his head to look at him, not speaking. Finally he said, 'They never mentioned Rhuidean to me, Mat.'

'Oh, burn me,' he muttered.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“Limping to the foot of the bed, he lowered himself into the chest there and laid Callandor across his knees, bloody hands resting on the glowing blade. With that in his hands, even one of the Forsaken would fear him. In a moment he would send for Moiraine to Heal his wounds. In a moment he would speak to the Aiel outside, and become the Dragon Reborn again. But for now, he only wanted to sit, and remember a shepherd named Rand al’Thor.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“He will take you back, and he will destroy you. "I bring change," Rand said sadly. "Not peace, but turmoil." Destruction follows on my heels everywhere. Will there ever be anywhere I do not tear apart? "What will be, will be, Rhuarc. I can't change it.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“That mountain can grow awfully heavy sometimes,” he sighed, taking a spear and buckler from Rhuarc. “When do you find a chance to put it down awhile?”
“When you die,” Lan said simply”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“I expect you will not lack for company after I go. Just remember that some women see a man with their hearts, while others see no more than a bauble to wear, no different than a necklace or a bracelet. Remember that i will come back, and I am one who sees with her heart.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“My heart and fortune, such as they are, already lie at your feet."
Faile missed a step, then laughed softly and pressed her cheek against his booted calf. "You are too clever for me," she murmured. "One day I will dance it for you, and boil the blood in your veins."
"You already do that," he said, and she laughed again.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“We have almost always been linked," Brigitte told Nynaeve without taking her eyes from Cain's. "He is usually born well before me--so I know my time approches again when I cannot find him--and I usually hate him at first sight in the flesh. But we nearly always end lovers or wed. A simple story, but I think we have spun it out in a thousand variations.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“You come back here, or I'll hero you! I'll thump you so you think you've had an adventure!”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“You do not realize what it means that you force the form of the Age Lace, do you? The ripples of your actions, the ripples of your very existence, spread across the threads of which you will never be aware. The battle is far from yours alone. Yet you stand in the heart of this web in the Pattern. Should you fail, and fall, all fails and fall.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising